Who’s in the audience at Rupert Murdoch’s hearing today?

There are only 40 seats in the audience of the committee hearing room where Murdoch is testifying. And the Guardian reporter staking out the scene had this interesting observation this morning: Harry Evans, the former editor of [the] Times when Murdoch bought it, is second in line [to get in], having flown in from New ...

There are only 40 seats in the audience of the committee hearing room where Murdoch is testifying. And the Guardian reporter staking out the scene had this interesting observation this morning:

Harry Evans, the former editor of [the] Times when Murdoch bought it, is second in line [to get in], having flown in from New York yesterday.

Evans, who is married to Tina Brown, was the legendary editor of the Times of London until Murdoch bought the paper in 1981 and forced him out. His 1984 autobiography, Good Times, Bad Times, was a "corrosive attack on Rupert Murdoch," according to the Independent.

He wrote in the book, "I knew that Murdoch issued promises as prudently as the Weimar Republic issued Marks."

And he’s called Murdoch elitist, anti-democratic, and ruthless in business.

So, one suspects he’s not there to cheer Rupert on.

Robert Zeliger is News Editor of Foreign Policy.

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